Leading Blog

AUGUST 18, 2017

It’s scheduled white space—a commitment you make to yourself simply because your leadership begins with who you are—not what you do. Joey Reiman, CEO of the consulting firm BrightHouse, credits their success to their “longer, incubation pace.” So let’s look at four things solitude will do for you. Clarity is about what is true.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

At the other end of the size spectrum, Walmart has committed to investing $2.7 Many tech companies have experimented with giving employees unstructured time to explore new ideas such as LinkedIn’s InCubator, Apple’s Blue Sky and Microsoft’s Garage.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 12, 2020

When you view change—especially the disruptive kind—through the eyes of Situational Leadership ® , what you see is regression. For example, there can be any number of things that happen in an employee’s personal life that adversely impacts their work-related confidence, commitment or motivation.

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Incubator Situational Leadership Uncertainty Energy 64

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

But just as rental houses are often given minimal maintenance, leaders of acquired firms brought in only the minimum leadership necessary. This shift means that PE firms’ approaches to talent and leadership must also change. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. Its rise to prominence began when it launched its affordable Brownie camera in 1900. Don't go it alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. TFA stands out as a prolific spawner of entrepreneurial leadership in education. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

If anything, it made them more committed to finding creative ways to drive innovation and growth. It featured a small team of energetic leaders with audacious dreams about substantially growing their business unit. The challenges facing companies in India didn't faze this group. India's infrastructure issues need to get fixed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

That is to say, given the applied "street smarts" and talent — the art of the hustle, the leadership and prowess of running a drug business — what is it all worth? That these guys who had run drug businesses had all these entrepreneurial characteristics like scrappiness, charisma, and real skills in leadership and management."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Each chair selects the DPI for his or her department, a compensated job that requires a one- to two-hour weekly commitment. Second, DPIs are encouraged to enroll in a leadership program offered jointly with Harvard Business School as well as a process improvement course focusing on lean techniques and the plan-do-study-act model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Their extended timelines struggle to weather leadership change. The major benefit of slow innovation is prescience; if you’re patient and committed, slow-innovation projects could alert you to an idea, trend, or gap in the market that would have otherwise appeared to “happen overnight.” Start small.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. You probably reach for your firefighter’s hat to extinguish the short-term problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

This process has been incubated successfully at SAP, where teams have compressed the product development process into three months for some new releases. It also provides the executive leadership with a steady stream of "demos" to show off at CES.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

We have Denise Brosseau, founder of the Thought Leadership Lab here on LDRLB. It would be really boring if we had a podcast talking about a podcast, so let’s talk about the book instead, and let’s talk about Thought Leadership Lab. Thought leadership does not happen overnight. DENISE: (laughs).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA. To get these two cultures to work together, first we had a strong commitment from the top, from CEO Jeff Immelt.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

So we created a university-led task force, coached by BEEP faculty, to pilot Add Venture-Más – a fairly standard student-based incubation and acceleration program that takes startup entrepreneurs from a product concept to initial sales over a three-month period.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

If companies want to be able to consistently innovate, they need dedicated innovation professionals to carry out the functions of discovery, development, incubation, acceleration, and scaling. But this innovation division can’t be siloed off from the rest of the business.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. The magic for them is not something’s initial lightbulb moment but the commitment to assessing, refining, and reintroducing the systems that will make the thing work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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